Friendship Growth Metaphors

Table of Contents

• Friendship as a Growing Plant
• Friendship as a Garden Needing Care
• Friendship as a Shelter or Protection
• Friendship as an Enduring and Deep Connection

Friendship as a Growing Plant

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow ripening fruit.

Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced -- true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.

But friendship meant you at least planted the seed for them, love meant allowing them the ability to weed their own garden until it was something healthy and thriving, blooming and bright and smelling of heather and tiger lilies.

Friendship is like flowers;beautiful but delicate.

Our friendship is like a flowerthat seed is planted deep and realBlooms with sunshine and showerand will never wither if gives great care.

Friendship plants itself as a small unobtrusive seed; over time, it grows thick roots that wrap around your heart. When a love affair ends, the tree is torn out quickly, the operation painful but clean. Friendship withers quietly, there is always hope of revival. Only after time has passed do you recognise that it is dead, and you are left, for years afterwards, pulling dry brown fibres from your chest.

Friendship is a kind of a flower that have many COLOURS and very sweet SMELL. A summer friend loves its COLOURS but a real friend loves its SMELL.

Friendship is a plant that loves the sun, thrives ill under clouds.

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

Don't let grass grow on the path of friendship

Friendship's said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation.

True friendship is a plant of slow growth.

Friendship is a plant which must often be watered.

You create real friendships through a growth process. It's not just, oh hi, we're friends! That's very childlike. True adult friendships take time, understanding, and it's a plant that needs to be watered and tended to so that it blossoms.

Friendship as a Garden Needing Care

A gardener is like a prophet looking out on a barren land and saying, ‘I see corn on that hill, and beans beneath the grove, and lavender in the field, and over there some roses by the brick wall.’ Don’t you think that’s what a good friend should be like? A truly good friend is one who can look at our bare lives and see the fruit of what will one day come from deep inside us.

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

People are not cactuses, they need plenty of water and, when talking about friendship, the water is our time.

Friends and People are like clouds and trees that we see hustling past the window of a running train.Trees are like PEOPLE.. all running.. in the opposite direction;Clouds are like our FRIENDS.. like family.. our near and dear ones..They remain with us; No matter how far and at what pace we run..

If nature was your good friend when you were a child, you must then know that you it will remain your good friend till the end of your life!

But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely used. Give it plenty of air and it is sweet as the hawthorn; shut it up and it cankers and breeds worms.

As frost to the bud, and blight to the blossom, even such is self-interest to friendship; for confidence cannot dwell where selfishness is porter at the gate.

Friendships are like plowed open fields ready for growth. What we plant is what will grow. If we plant seeds of reassurance, blessing, and love, we reap a great harvest of security. Of course, if we plant seeds of backbiting, questioning, and doubt, we reap a great harvest of insecurity.

Friendships are like plowed open fields ready for growth. What we plant is what will grow. If we plant seeds of reassurance, blessing, and love, we reap a great harvest of security.

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often – just to save it from drying out completely.

Friendship is a tree to take shelter from the storm, to find shade from the blazing sun, to climb its bratches to get a better view, and to swing from when we’re happy.

As you walk through forests or the meadows of your mind, Stop and talk to those you fear Good friendships you may find.

Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit.

A friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil; but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small, silly presents every so often--just to save it from drying out completely.

Friendship as a Shelter or Protection

Friendship is a sheltering tree.

May the hinges of friendship never rust, or the wings of luve lose a feather.

The friendship between me and you I will not compare to a chain; for that the rains might rust, or the falling tree might break.

All true friendliness begins with fire and food and drink and the recognition of rain or frost.

It was better to be in chains with friends than in a garden with strangers. [An ancient Persian proverb.] So true, huh?

Doesn't this quote just call up feelings of comfort and home? Comparing friendship to the nest a bird lives in and builds with loving determination reminds me that having a solid relationship takes work and dedication. And yet, when you succeed in crafting a friendship, you can rest in the comfort it provides.

There is no friend like the old friend, who has shared our morning days, No greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise: Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold; But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.

Every friend is to the other a sun, and a sunflower also. He attracts and follows.

And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you - friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.

Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil.

It is the first law of friendship that it has to be cultivated. The second is to be indulgent when the first law is neglected.

Friendship’s said to be a plant of tedious growth, its root composed of tender fibers, nice in their taste, cautious in spreading.

If we approach Nature with, it will serve us as our best friend, a friend that won’t let us down.

And this sensitivity will create new friendships for you – friendships with trees, with birds, with animals, with mountains, with rivers, with oceans, with stars. Life becomes richer as love grows.

The vulgar herd estimate friendship by its advantages.

Friendship as an Enduring and Deep Connection

Thorns may hurt you, men desert you, sunlight turn to fog;but you're never friendless ever, if you have a dog.

Friendship is a miracle by which a person consents to view from a certain distance, and without coming any nearer, the very being who is necessary to him as food. It requires the strength of soul that Eve did not have; and yet she had no need of the fruit. If she had been hungry at the moment she looked at the fruit, and if in spite of that she had remained looking at it indefinitely without taking one step toward it, she would have performed a miracle analogous to that of perfect friendship.

If nature was your good friend when you were a child, you must then know that it will remain your good friend till the end of your life!

Friendship here is like a flower that blooms in the desert; it blossoms from the harshest environment to add something special to the lives it touches.

Friends are like a pleasant park where you wish to go; while you may enjoy the flowers, you may not eat them.

Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

I know of no common interest that exceeds gardening as a source of lifelong friendships, nor as a means of making new friends almost constantly.

Friendship however is a plant which cannot be forced – true friendship is no gourd spring up in a night and withering in a day.

A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart which passions of all kinds do cause and induce.

Friendship can weather most things and thrive in thin soil - but it needs a little mulch of letters and phone calls and small silly presents every so often - just to save it from drying out completely.

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